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Can anyone help with this.  I don't know who she is but a date might help me to make a better guess.  The reverse of the image is a postcard which has been cropped and some of the lettering is missing.  In a rainbow shape above the words Post Card it says E Hancock & ------land (I presume Sunderland) & South Shields. Thanks Jen

I have been doing family history for about 2 years and I have a brick wall.  Can you help me find the parents of John Dugdale or maybe point me in the right direction to look for any other information about him?  John died in 1831 The only records I have been able to find are his marriage to Ester Newby in 1821 at St Peter`s Monkwearmouth (found on GENUK1 – Monkwearmouth marriages 1813 – 1826 and also from Northumberland & Durham Family History Society reproduced on Find My Past). I have a baptism record for his son William at St Michael`s Bishopwearmouth (the baptism record describes John as a labourer) and the record of his name on William`s marriage certificate. On Williams marriage certificate John is recorded as deceased - his occupation is Roper.  I also found the record of his burial, (Bishopwearmouth Church: St. Michael and all Angels Denomination: Anglican 18 Nov 1831 John Dugdale, of Deptford, age: 34).  I have tried to find a baptism record, but no luck.  Does anyone have any ideas as to where I could look?

Tearing my hair out
I would really appreciate any help with this problem as I really think I am about to tear my hair out!  So here goes, Sarah Davison, sometimes described as Sarah Alice, married Robert Alfred Mullaney in 1885 at the church of St Albans, Heworth, Durham (I have the marriage cert and family photos and evidence to prove this). On the marriage cert. she declares her age as 18 and her father as Andrew Davison a quarryman.  I can find Sarah (who always on subsequent census records declares her birth place as Windy Nook) age 2 on the 1871 census as the daughter of Andrew and Frances E Davison. This seems to fit, but would make her 16 at the time of her marriage not 18.  On the 1881 census she is age 12 and living with her mother and step father, in Windy Nook.  The step father is John Pigget but on subsequent census records he and Francis are Bygate so I think the census enumerator made a mistake there.  I am trying to find Frances E’s maiden name and I thought that if I found Sarah’s birth certificate I could identify Francis’s surname. So here is the problem I have searched Ancestry, Find My Past (including Northumberland and Durham Family History Society records), FreeBMD and Durham Records on Line and I get nowhere! The only record I can find is a marriage between a (MY?) Andrew Davison and a Francis Davison on the 10th of July 1865 which was in the Parish Register for Heworth (from IGI parish register transcriptions 1843 - 1879). But no record of Sarah Alice before she was 2.
So how can I find Sarah Alice’s birth certificate? Did Andrew marry someone of the same name? I really need to be able to get a record of Sarah Alice’s birth to move forward with this – please can anyone help?
Jen

Please can anyone help me find out which regiment William Patrick belonged to? A few months ago I was at a Family History conference, I was advised by someone on an Irish History stall that tracking my elusive Irish relative would be easy if I got hold of his army record, the trouble is that I can't work out which regiment he was in.  On the 13th of December 1863 Patrick Mullaney married Elizabeth Jane Bluett at the registry office in Stoke Damerel Plymouth Devon. Rank or Profession ; Private in the 2nd Queens Royal Regiment, residence at time of marriage: Raglan Barracks Devonport (Father’s Name and Surname; John Mullaney Father’s Rank or Profession; Harness maker (master) Dublin Ireland).  The only regiment I can find on the net which half fits this description and time period is the Queens Royal West Surrey / 2nd foot.  Now my geography is not brilliant but Surrey is not Devon!  Also, Raglan Barracks no longer exists. Any help or ideas on where I might go next would be very much appreciated.
Jen